The Marquise: I Earn My Own Worship

The two of them conspired together, and Chu Qinling also gave him many tricks, teaching him how to convince people and win their hearts after defeating them.

Kang Ge'er also prepared a small booklet and asked your brother to write in it so that he could take it out and read it.

As for why I don’t write, it’s because my writing is not as good as your brother’s. Although he is not so good at literature, he also has aesthetic taste.

Except for the neat handwriting in the teaching homework, he wrote in cursive when he was outside, so sloppy that he himself could not understand it.

Sometimes when he was writing letters, he would think that it was really hard for his brother to understand what he was writing.

"Hey, brother, that... is..."

Kang Ge'er suddenly became shy and looked around like a thief.

"Did the Imperial Concubine really know?"

Chu Qinling nodded.

"She really knows? It's over, my reputation is ruined!"

Kang Ge'er complained bitterly. He had always been a good brother in front of the imperial concubine, but now his image was ruined by the villain who had complained about him. I hope the imperial concubine will think that he is a bad brother.

Chu Qinling shook his head and said that he didn't care. He still knew that he had to pay attention to his image in front of his elders.

"It's all my fault that I've displeased the Empress. Your brother, please speak up for me. I'm not as vicious as the rumors say. I'm just a jealous villain. Don't let me catch you..."

"What if you catch him?"

The Emperor of Chu walked in with Concubine Ning from outside, and the palace maids in the room knelt on the ground.

Kang Ge'er didn't expect that he was caught red-handed by His Majesty while plotting to "commit a crime". He was so scared that he knelt on the ground with his legs straight.

"I pay my respects to His Majesty."

"Get up!"

The King of Chu was in a good mood. He sat down and flipped through the Thirty-Six Strategies to Control Subordinates that Xiaoliu wrote for Kang Ge'er.

"Look, Your Majesty, do you think my guess was right? These two together are definitely up to no good."

Concubine Ning said this jokingly, biting the ear of Emperor Chu and looking at the two of them meaningfully.

Chu Qinling touched his nose, and Kang Ge'er looked at the roof busyly.

Well, the roofs of the palace are built differently from the outside.

"I recently heard that there's a bully in the capital who's committing crimes everywhere. Now, the sons of noble families dare not go out for fear of being arrested. I wonder if you've heard about it? Tell me and the concubine too."

Kang Ge'er couldn't help but turn his head and finally looked at himself. His Majesty must be asking him.

"hey-hey"

Just as Kang Ge'er was about to reply, Chu Qinling stepped forward and spoke first.

"Father..."

The Emperor of Chu waved his hand to stop him.

"I asked Kang Xiaozi, let him tell you, isn't he the best storyteller?"

"Your Majesty, recently a young hero has emerged, acting out of chivalry and fighting against the unhealthy trend of young men in the capital who abuse their power to bully others. Recruit him as a disciple to strengthen our forces and help relieve your worries. This boy is a capable general. If there is something going on, spread the word to him and it reaches the ears of the Emperor. From then on, having a capable general on hand will become a great story."

Kang Ge'er finished speaking with a smile and performed a storyteller's closing ceremony.

"Hahahahaha, this brat."

The emperor laughed too much and coughed twice. Concubine Ning quickly patted his chest. The emperor took a deep breath and grabbed a green date from the table and threw it to him.

Kang Ge'er caught it, smiled foolishly and took a bite.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for the reward."

Then he winked at Chu Qinling who had already sat on the other side. Chu Qinling quickly picked up the teacup to cover the corners of his raised mouth.

"What a hero! Come sit down and let me take a good look at this good general."

Kang Ge'er ran over happily. Emperor Chu touched Kang Ge'er's body, patted his shoulders and pinched his arms.

"Good boy, good job, you have a strong body."

Hearing what the Emperor of Chu said, Kang Ge'er smiled so hard that all eight of his teeth were exposed.

"It's all taught well by the master."

There was a slight glint in the eyes of the Emperor of Chu, and Kang Ge'er was pulled over by Concubine Ning.

Concubine Ning touched Kang Ge'er curiously, and then she saw the calluses on his hands.

"Oh, how did this happen?"

Concubine Ning used her handkerchief to point at the scar hyperplasia between her thumb and index finger, as well as the thick calluses on her fingers.

There was a look of heartache in her eyes. As a mother, she couldn't bear to see such things and could always empathize with them.

"Your Highness is fine. I just started standing on the stakes and fell down. I accidentally scratched myself."

"Does it still hurt?"

Kang Ge'er felt that the imperial concubine was really gentle.

"It doesn't hurt anymore. I'm a real man, so a little injury is nothing to worry about."

The Emperor of Chu chuckled and twirled the Zen beads in his hand.

"If it hurt, how could I have the energy to beat up those old guys' grandsons and make them go home and complain?"

The King of Chu looked at the strong calf in front of him with amusement. This calf was a real tiger, and with his own strength he once again made Duan Bo's Mansion a "hot search" in the capital.

Ranked first on the list and remains at the top.

"Your Majesty, please tell me who made the complaint. I'll have a proper talk with him next time I see him. It's not like whoever files the complaint first gets to be polite."

"Oh? Then tell me first, what do you say?"

"Conquer others with virtue."

Of course, it is the kind of virtue that lacks morality.

The King of Chu knew that this kid couldn't spit out ivory from a dog's mouth, and he knew that what he said was not a good thing.

But if you ask him, those people deserved it. Who told you to provoke others for no reason? You can't beat them, so you complain. You should just solve this kind of thing privately. You can't win over that old woman from the Duan family, so you come to him to complain.

But now she looks more and more like Duan Chongming when he was young. If that man was young, he would have brought Kang Xiaozi to his house long ago.

If he were his son, he would have the nerve to come to him and ask him for justice even though he had never beaten him. It would be a shame to his ancestors!

"I heard your grandmother taught you?"

The Emperor of Chu heard that the old woman from the Duan family had said that anyone who wanted to be beaten, whether they had been beaten or not, should not come to the Duan Mansion and they would not bother to receive them.

This old Mrs. Yu is really regressing as she gets older. She was very cautious when she was young, but she became bolder as she was dying.

Back then, he asked her to give him a tiger talisman, and after giving it to him, he fainted in his palace. Didn't he just chop someone down in front of her? He was so scared that he even suffered from intermittent amnesia. What a loser.

"Well, I guess so. Grandma said a gentleman uses words, not fists, because a gentleman can't win a fight. She said someone like me who's not good at talking can't be a gentleman, so when things get tough, I have to use my fists."

Not noticing the odd expressions of the people present, Kang Ge'er continued speaking.

"But Grandmother also said that I can recognize a true gentleman at a glance. Those who can't see are hypocrites. Don't pay attention to these people. I think a true gentleman should be like my fourth uncle and the master. According to their standards, I know them immediately."

Your standards are quite low, kid. The Emperor of Chu recalled the way Duan Silang confronted people in the court at an inappropriate time.

"Your younger brother is a gentleman, and Brother Jian is a gentleman. The others are hard to say. But I think some things are hard to say. Grandmother may not be right, and the teacher may not be right, but what Your Majesty says is definitely right. Your Majesty, if I do something wrong, you must tell me. If Your Majesty says that beating people is wrong, then I will not beat them in the future."